FC Practice Test 8                name:________________            score:_________%

Use of English

Part 1

For questions 1-12, read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Example:

0 A just          B quite             C hardly            D already

Food to fear

We all know that eating too much junk food is bad for our health, but did you know that eating some kinds
of health foods could be (0) …. as bad for you?

Michel Simon, who (1) …. the Centre for Informed Food Choices in the USA, says there are sugary sports drinks that are as unhealthy as cola. "These drinks may be (2) …. for marathon runners, but for kids doing ordinary exercise, they may end up doing more (3) …. than good."

Breakfast cereals, which of course are very (4) …. with kids, have also been criticised. Whilst they are often high in fibre, some of them (5) …. a lot more sugar and salt than you would expect. In addition, some of the foods we have (6) …. to know as 'health snacks' have also been added to the black (7) …. Although they look and sound nutritious, in most (8) …. they are much tastier than they are healthy for you. For example, some types of dried fruit were (9) …. to have more fat and sugar than the fruit they were (10) …. from.

So next time you decide to cut down (11) …. junk food, think twice about what you end up eating (12) ….  .

Part 2

For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS in the answer boxes provided.

Example: OF

Entering the Blogosphere

The explosive growth (0) …of ...  the Internet over the past decade has been accompanied (13) …..  a rise in new ways of interacting and communicating in cyberspace. First came emails and then chat rooms. Now, growing in popularity (14) …..  an incredible rate, is something known as blogging. For those (15) …..  have never heard of it, a blog, which is short for web log, is a kind of journal or diary that people write (16) …..  'post' online.

The beauty of blogging is that anyone (17) …..  put a blog on the web and write about any topic (18) …..  the sun. Many people just write about their daily lives (19) …..  others use a blog to give their opinions about current topics. Favourite subjects tend to be sports, politics, food and gossip.

Some of the (20) …..  interesting blogs can be found on Internet newspaper sites (21) …..  readers post their comments on articles in the news. One surprising development of blogging is that they are now (22) …..  used as a source of news themselves. It is (23) …..  uncommon for journalists to use information that they have found on blog sites to write their articles.

On the downside (24) …..  , there have been cases in which people have written bad things about their jobs and bosses on a blog and then ended up getting the sack.

Part 3

For questions 25-34, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS in the answer boxes provided.

Example: teaching

Being a teacher